Why do we not get more Revolutionary War movies or miniseries?

Hollywood hates the side that won

Have you watched Turn?

I mean, being perfectly honest, it just wasn’t a very cinematic war. More people died in prison barges than on the battlefield.

You could do something interesting with Bunker Hill or Saratoga. But overall the American revolution was a lot of very complicated micro scenarios playing out all over the place

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I mean, being perfectly honest, it just wasn’t a very cinematic war. More people died in prison barges than on the battlefield.

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I wholeheartedly disagree with that. You had the underdog scenario obviously. Militiamen, that fought like Indians against overwhelming odds with the British Regulars. The British didn’t know how to respond on their retreat back to Boston. The militia kept hiding behind trees and walls taking potshots, it infuriated them that they wouldn’t line up and fight like Europeans.

It was the first revolution of a colony that ever threw off the yoke of its “owner” in the history of mankind.

Farmers, tanners, ferrymen, ironworkers, woodsmen, preachers, farriers, all came together and beat the most powerful empire in the history of the world.

There are thousands of stories to tell. The highest percentage of Americans died in that rebellion than any war America has ever seen. Granted the population was small but still. It was divine providence that we won. There’s a million interesting, riveting stories to tell involving espionage and courage against overwhelming odds.

When the minutemen beat back the regulars at Concord they were absolutely shocked that they’d won and had retreating Regulars in front of them running away, they were amazed. They didn’t know what to do.

There’s a Band of Brothers, Pacific. Masters of the Air type miniseries just begging to be told from 1775-1783

I know about Turn, but they could go so much bigger and deeper than that

The Founders did the something incredible - stood up to THE colonial power - and won.

People need to be made to not remember that.

It's already been done. About 25 years ago Jeff Daniels starred in a film about Washington and his army crossing the Delaware River. Incidentally enough, the movie was called The Crossing.

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Why do we not get more Revolutionary War movies or miniseries?

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Honest answer? Patriotism and nationalism are now viewed as bad things, especially by most of Hollywood.

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I read that book last year. I always thought those early skirmishes were many men, but in reality there were just a few. From what I remember, they would work on the farm one day and be shooting at the Brits the next.

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In the southern theater, there was a ton of issues keeping the militia together because they all needed to get home to tend to their crops.

Most of the engagements in the Revolution were small scale. Most would also be surprised how many didn't involve actual British but were instead Loyalist vs Patriot Americans.

Or Patriots vs Hessians